Maday's record of violence dates back to teen years

Robert Maday's history of violence and escape stretches back to his teenage years.

He was sent to prison in Dade County, Fla. in 1987 for an armed attack on a pizza delivery person, according to the State's Attorney's office there.

Maday, then 17, and a co-defendant were both armed with handguns when they forced a man who had come to deliver them pizzas back into his car, drove him to a secluded area and robbed him of money, credit cards and a watch, according to Dade County records.

When the victim tried to run, Maday hit him in the head with the butt of his gun and struck him in other parts of the body, before leaving the man lying in a field and stealing his car.

In addition to a charge of escape, Maday was convicted of robbery, kidnapping, burglary, grand theft, conspiracy to commit a felony, aggravated battery, unlawful possession of a firearm while engaged in a criminal offense, and resisting an officer without violence to his person.

Maday was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for the attack, and another five years for the escape, but was released from prison in Florida in June 1991, according to federal records.

He was subsequently convicted in May 1993 in Dauphin County, Pa., of open lewdness, recklessly endangering a person and indecent exposure. Maday was given 12 months probation on those charges, records state.

But he soon faced much more serious charges in the Keystone State.

Maday was convicted in federal court in August 1994 of three counts of bank robbery and two counts of armed bank robbery, and sentenced to 12½ years at the federal prison in Lewisburg, Pa.

Also in August 1994, he was convicted in state court in Pennsylvania of robbery and sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison.

Maday headed to the Chicago area just weeks after he was released from more than a decade in Pennsylvania prisons in September 2005, according to Len Bogart, chief U.S. probation officer for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Maday completed his federal sentence in January 2005, but was sent to a state detention center to complete his robbery sentence, Bogart said. He was released from state detention to a halfway house on Sept. 6, 2005, Bogart said, and within weeks had petitioned the federal parole program in Pennsylvania to move to the Chicago.